That's nonsense, Judah... at least the House votes and passes bills. Wouldn't it be smarter for Reid to bring up bills for a vote, pass them (if he could), and then force the House to have to wrestle with a bill?
Reid is only trying to protect his senators by making sure they don't have to take a vote, show their stripes, and be held accountable by a public that has soured on all things democrat, including Obama with a 38% approval rating. And the entire reason you have a hard-core Tea Party wing, is that the conservative public got tired of the rampaging hard-core liberals running rough-shod over the country. That now works both ways, too. (Unless Obama and his IRS can successfully shut down the conservative groups by hunting them down and running them out of business.) Rick On 9/8/2014 5:45 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > It does go both ways, to an extent. I sense, in general, a greater > willingness to compromise on the side of the Democrats but you can't be > sure because the Tea Party has made it a litmus test. They can't agree to > even vote on straight up Republican ideas if they were introduced by a > Democrat. > > When you have the start of negotiations being an absolute "NO" on > everything, no matter how minor or procedural, from one side, then it is > impossible for there to be negotiations. So is Reid sitting on bills that > come into the Senate from the House? He is, indeed. Does it matter? No. Any > changes made by the Senate would be violently rejected by the Tea Party no > matter what. And they still wouldn't let there be a vote on a bill coming > in from the Senate, even if Reid allowed a vote on every single item coming > out of the House. It just doesn't make any sense for the Senate waste time > on the bills if there is no chance at negotiation and reciprocity. > > It's funny, the Senate is supposed to be the anti-democratic institution > but things have been really flipped around. You bring up a good point, > though, about how there isn't much in the way of Constitutional direction > on how to deal with severe dysfunction between the two houses of the > Legislature. > > Cheers, > Judah > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:45 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I think that that article described the situation well and concisely. I >>> know that the House is killing anything that moves and that the Tea Party >>> will not tolerate any compromises with Democrats. >>> >> It misses a major point - Reid isn't bringing House bills to the floor in >> the Senate either. That's not to say that Republican leadership and others >> aren't gumming up the works too, but the Senate Majority Leader is the >> person that approves the bills that make it to the floor oc that chamber. >> >> An interesting point was made on one of the previous episodes of my >> podcast: The Constitution provides mechanisms if the different branches >> don't work with each other but there isn't really a recourse if the two >> congressional chambers don't see eye-to-eye. >> >> Until Later! >> C. Hatton Humphrey >> http://www.eastcoastconservative.com >> >> Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some >> smelting to find it. >> >> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:372027 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
